What I have learned this month:
Humans are scared of feelings.
They don't accept them as signals.
They don't treat pain as being a signal either.
Pain is good.
Feelings are good.
We need to stop pocketing feelings
as good or bad.
Feelings are signals.
What I have learned this month:
Also learned that humans see feelings
as an outburst of real intense issues,
rather than being signals from their own interior.
Humans are not able to articulate,
moment by moment, how they are feeling.
What I have learned this month:
So many humans, when I ask how they are feeling -
tell me what they are thinking.
What I have learned this month:
The longest journey,
the real road less travelled into the interior self,
is paved with a multiplicity of feelings -
to the depths of the soul,
and wondrous buried treasures…
What I have learned this month:
I still get shivers down my spine when I am eye-to-eye
with a human when they are moving from 'being' to 'becoming'.
What I have learned this month:
Humans can be shocked by what they say.
Shocked by the process of digging in the craters of the soul,
and when articulating their findings to another human.
It shocks/surprises/delights/…
... and it is beautiful to the core of my being.
What I have learned this month:
That there is a school who have humans as teachers
that really facilitate learning, change and development
with young humans.
What I have learned this month:
I am not good at remembering Nigerian names.
And - if I don't use that humans name in a group -
it is noticed!
What I have learned this month:
That humans understand how humans in gangs behave and belong.
When asked to delve and think -
they realise that gangs have all the normal human needs -
just like we do.
Needs of security,
belonging,
achievement,
recognition
AND that if they don't receive it,
they will go and get it.
What I have learned this month:
That I can still dance with 100 teenagers and enjoy it!
What I have learned this month:
That so many humans who have arrived in our country seeking asylum
are hard working and committed humans.
Sensitive,
a thirst for growth,
beautiful to get to know.
This month one mature woman, from the Punjab,
so beautiful in her responses and exchanges -
beautiful in openness -
beautiful in respectfulness of human life -
even those so different from her -
those who are damaged by life.
I am oozing with respect for her.
What I have learned this month:
That obnoxious behaviour
brings out feelings of love in me.
What I have learned this month:
That when I stand before 100 humans,
I am nervous because I want for them.
What I have learned this month:
That when sitting in a group of five or six humans,
I am nervous because I hope for them.
What I have learned this month:
I am refreshed in learning and sensitivity
when I hear again how so many people workers
are abused in their daily work.
What I have learned this month:
That we all have thoughts,
feelings and behaviours
that are under attack.
From inside, our interior emotional responses.
From outside, from 'shoulds and aughts' attitudes.
That I need to recognise those signals AND
respond with loving words.
What I have learned this month…
… and you?
Pip Wilson bhp
This is an extract from my book forthcoming.
I feel it will be the last book I will write.
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